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So I was re-reading The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, and ended up drawing a picture of the Marquess...
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It's Fairyland Day!
It seems like just yesterday we were reading the first pages of September's journey here together! It's amazing and wonderful that now The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is in print!
How You Can Help Celebrate:
Buy the book - Through Amazon, B&N or your local indie book store. It's also available electronically ( Read more... ) -
Habitation of the Blessed review!
My detailed review of Habitation of the Blessed is now available! The book is due out November 1, 2010; the review is extensive but I tried to avoid spoilers.
You can read the review either on my LJ or at lizbet.org. (Use the lizbet.org link to promote or retweet, if you will.)
Also, through tonight there's an ARC contest at yuki_onna's LJ: make a LOLJohn ( Read more... ) -
VICTORY!
Herself says there will be a redesign. We won this one. Thank all of you for your part in that ( Read more... ) -
DAMN THE MAN: SAVE THE KINGDOM - A Letter For Prester John
Once upon a time, there was (or perhaps there wasn't) a man named Prester JohnA good bit more recently than that, your friend and mine, Catherynne M. Valente, wrote a book - the first of three - about Prester John and the kingdom he found when he went looking. Being a book by Catherynne M. Valente, it is beautiful and gorgeous and lush, full of ( Read more... ) -
Fairyland Wins the Andre Norton Award!
As we all know, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making is a truly amazing piece of work: it grew from another remarkable work, Palimpsest, where it was only an idea* in a created world, a children's book that built a large part of the soul of November, our lonely, list-making beekeeper. Fairyland was a crowdfunded work, ( Read more... ) -
Psssst! Have you heard?
CMV's Fairyland has been nominated for theAndre Norton Award!
Fairyland has won CultureGeeks's Reader's Choice Award for Best Web Fiction of the Decade, beating out Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog, The Guild, and XKCD. Thanks to all who voted!
Over on Omikuji, CMV still has some open spots for illustrations for the anthology! DEADLINE IS MARCH ( Read more... ) -
Ask the Author Questions!
At long last I come back to these--I love answering and I hope we'll have another question round now that I'm on top of it again.
From mermaiden : Why do you tell stories?
I'm not sure I could do anything else. I used to answer that question flippantly, or with the poetry is the blood jet line from Sylvia Plath. But the thing is, since I was a kid, I did ( Read more... ) -
Shadow Theory Verified
First, I have to say how much I truly loved this entire story. I cried at several points during the last chapters ( Read more... )
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